We’ve all come to expect a certain level of hassle at the airport, including groping, peeking and the confiscation of our shampoo, but the Department of Homeland Security bullies appear poised to up the ante for residents of several states.

By December 1798, the United States was in a full-blown constitutional crisis, and James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were stealthily leading the fight to push the federal government back within its prescribed limits.

Today, I received an email from a “constitutional law professor” chastising me for an argument I made in the most recent installment of my continuing serious on The Federalist Papers. The email is indicative of the condescension and lack of critical thinking we deal with from so-called experts all the time.